Recommended: Your video should be uploaded to the Rutgers YouTube Channel before proceeding.

Also review more details about videos with SAS: https://sasit.rutgers.edu/how-to-guides/web-development-documentation/web-development/116-joomla-3-x/video/699-video-hosting-options-at-rutgers

  1. Take a screen shot of the video to be added to the gallery, and crop it to display a still image from the video.  This will be used as the thumbnail for the video.
  2. Upload the image into the gallery.
  3. Click on Edit for the thumbnail image that you uploaded into the gallery:

    Ignite Gallery: Click on Edit for the thumbnail image that you uploaded into the gallery
  4. Go to where the video is hosted, and copy the URL of the video:

    Ignite Gallery: Copy the URL of the video
  5. Paste the URL for the video into the media code:

    Ignite Gallery: Paste URL of video into the media code

  6. Click Save & Close.
  7. You can now see the image as a thumbnail with the rest of the images: 

    Ignite Gallery: Video image appears in gallery as thumbnail

  8. When you click on it, you will be taken to the lightbox, and you can play the video:

    Ignite Gallery: Video plays in lightbox


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